The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-03
MUST HAZE THEIR BLOOD.

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MUST HAZE THEIR BLOOD.
Our dying c"temporary, the Globe,
rises on its last legs and says of our
pleading for the life Of two brother
editors and i've brother men:
''IIOw any ordrr-lov,ng American
citizen can deliberately write such
stuff IS the above, we are 1T loss to
know. The man who CAN pen
such Il paragraph rs the above has u
queer idea Of free SPEECH"
We are at no loss to know. Even IL
the man who threw the bomb was
among the seven, we should be oppos-
ed to j"dicial!y numbering him. Two
wrongs do not make right. The
state which hangs man is guilty of
Legal murder. The men, like this
Globe editor, who justify the hanging
are accessory. and will suffer for it.
We want these seven anarchists to
have new trial for they were not fair
iy tried. There WAS conspiracy to
convict. and nearly every guarantee
from the Federal and state cOnslitu.
tions, and nearly every safeguard es-
tablisliel to secure \ fair trial for an
American citizen, was violated or
dodged. The police Of Chicago, aided
hy Plnkerton's detectives. ''workrd up
the case" and formed the conspiracy
To convict.
Give them new trial and if they
can be directly connected with the
lmmb throwing, imprison them for
life.
One of the most discouraging and
sickening features of this insane clam
"r for the blood Of these men, is that
the editors and publishers OF the
country are demanding the blood Of
Parsons and Spies, two brother edit
ors, for exercising their right OF free
speech. The editorials. the special
dispatches, and even the associated
press dispatches are nearly all one
sided, prrjudiced. unfair and loud in
demanding the execution of the whole
seven.
If Parsons and Spies can be hanged
b-cause their sentiments can he con-
nrcted with throwing the Haymarket
bomb. then every editor Of y working
snen : paper who advocates strike in
which human life is taken should be
hanged.
The Open Court, the ablest maga-
zine in the west, says in a recent arti-
clc on the Anarchists:
1T is we'll to bear in mind that the
issue in the supreme court was not be-
tween the punishment 1T the Defend
ants and their absolute acquittal. but
setw. en- death and u new trial; and we
believe that by reason of the errors
confessed in the decision itself. new
trial should have been allowed. And
this is the conviction, we are assured,
of men as eminent for legal ability and
attxinm.nts rs any of the learned gen.
tlemen by whom this decision has
been rendered. A lawyer in this city
remarked few days ago. Il believe
the men are guilty and ought to I've
hanged, but l am sorry that they did
not have u fair trial. Guilty or not,
If they did not have a fair trial, they
should have another"
This is most excellent statement Of
the issue. The ADVANCE has held
from the first that there was con-
spiracy to convict, and public clamor
is relied npon now to Overawe supreme
courts. governors. and even all express
sion of opinion.
OUR PRISONS.
The ADVANCE had scarcely gone to
press last week when its article OF our
prisons. saying that ''in some cases
they are simply horrible pens and the
treatment of prisoners is not only un-
kind but inhuman," when st. Paul pa
pers came to hand giving an account of
the Jail outrage in that city. A weak
minded girl was arrested by the police
and lodged in Jail where she was out
ragged by two deputy sheriffs and a
janitOr. This leads to revelations con.
corning the st Paul Jail and the lock Up
and they are pronounced "disgrace
to the city" by Gov McGill, who spoke
at the Sunday night meeting. Secreta-
ry Hart also spoke and gave much in
formation which he had gathered in
the line of his duties. He said he
would rather put boy Of his own in
a smallpox hospital than into the Ram
sey county Jail; that our jails are
schools Of vice and crime; that there
are 156 lock- ups and 56 county jails in
the state, and that, with few excep-
tions, all are an abomination. He said
that three classes of persons, not crim-
inals, are confined in these jails, viz:
insane persons. witnesses, and persons
accused, and he knew that they were
often ill-treated. This certainly &C.
cords with what the Advance said last
week, that often an innocent person
awaiting trial is subjected to lardships
which break his health and spirit, and
that witnesses are held amid such sur.
rOundings as are calculated to drive q
sensitive person mad.
On this subject Of prison reform and
prison abuses. We are a ''crank" also,
and We earnestly hope that this st Paul
outrage will create such storm of in
dignation throughout the State that
public sentiment will compel the re-
construction Of our jails and reform
In the whole system.
A. - T.